Climate difference in Fern forest vs Hawaiian acre

[YurtGirl]

For ANY fruit trees up here, do your research on elevation. Plant it Hawaii has excellent advice and online charts. It makes a huge difference. The copious amounts of rain also make a difference. For fruit trees, you'll be much happier in the Acres or lower. Bananas come once every couple years, our lilikoi is blooming for the first time in three years, the Himalayan rasperries and guavi do awesome!!! (That's sarcasm... they're both invasive as all get out). I'll let you know in a year or so how our high elevation tangerines, figs, grapes, lychee, starfruit and longans do. We're hoping with enough chicken poop, they'll give up and fruit everywhere Veggies need the greenhouse, to keep rains off, but also because the slugs here are horrendous and potentially carry a verrrry scary disease (see 'rat lung disease'.